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In the Dome: Calgary Flames Fan Podcast https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/HOC1060028494 Calgary Flames Fan Podcast. Calgary boys discussing all things Flames and all things hockey. YEAH BABY! Two Episodes a week: Monday & Thursday Follow us @InTheDomePod Follow our Network twitter@hockeypodnet

Straight Up Sabres Megaphone: A Modern Podcasting Platform Welcome to Straight Up Sabres presented by The Hockey Podcast Network & Buffalo Fanatics! Hosted by Brendan Hoare and Taylor Nigrelli, we cover the latest Sabres news with our own unique twist.Stay up to date in the world of hockey...

Brews & Bruins Megaphone: A Modern Podcasting Platform Just two 20-somethings and an adult drinking beer and talking Boston Bruins hockey. Hosted by Chris Gere, Cam Hasbrouck, and Drew Johnson. Presented by The Hockey Podcast Network & Bruins Diehards

Sporty With Cori & Richie Megaphone: A Modern Podcasting Platform Cori Crenshaw and Richie "Suave" Flores are Arizona natives with years of hockey experience & together they will keep you updated on all things Arizona Coyotes on & off the ice & have some fun along the way. Twitter...

The Quack Report Megaphone: A Modern Podcasting Platform The Quack Report is the official Anaheim Ducks podcast on the Hockey Podcast Network. For more hockey news, check out the other shows on The Hockey Podcast Network, where you’ll find a podcast for each of the NHL’s 31 teams. New...

. THE TOP 25 NBA PLAYERS EVER These are my top 25 NBA players ever, they are listed in alphabetical order, and I will write a brief thumbnail about each player. This article is dedicated to Elgin, Kobe, and my son Sean. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the 5 best players ever. His skyhook is the...

Book Title: From Rinks to Regiments: Hockey Hall-of-Famers and the Great War Author: Alan Livingstone MacLeod Publisher: Heritage House, 2018 From Rinks to Regiments - Heritage House Publishing Author Note: A. L. MacLeod is a Victoria-based author whose books have dealt with war, or hockey...

In March 1953, Stan Obodiac handed Anatoli Tarasov a book by Lloyd Percival. It's not clear whether the book was How to Play Better Hockey or The Hockey Handbook and how much of it Tarasov was able to translate. What we do know is that six months later, Tarasov implemented a new training routine...

In his biography Lloyd Percival: Coach and Visionary, Gary Mossman reports the following: The late Canadian sportswriter, Jim Coleman, frequently related a story told to him by Lethbridge Maple Leaf hockey player Stan Obodiac, who was of Ukrainian decent, spoke fluent Russian and sent regular...

One year to the day of the declaration of a global pandemic, I’m using the somewhat flimsy pretext of an overlooked anniversary (of sorts) from last week as an excuse for running this story today. Really, it’s just another old incident I may have figured out something new about… This past...

Book Title: Hockey’s Wildest Season: The Changing of the Guard in the NHL, 1969-1970 Author: John G. Robertson Publisher: McFarland: Hockey’s Wildest Season – McFarland Author’s Information John G. Robertson is a 57-year-old sports history author who lives in Cambridge, Ontario. He has...

On February 24, 1952, the Edmonton Mercurys completed an undefeated run through the Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, to win the gold medal in hockey. Canada had previously won Olympic hockey gold in 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932, and after settling for a surprising silver behind a Great Britain...

How should NBA All-Stars be selected? The starters are selected by fans, media, and players. I have no problem with this. I’ll even let them pick the first 2 reserves, Harden and Lillard. Harden is starting for the injured KD on my team. Starters: LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kawhi Leonard...

John William McGrath was born on March 10, 1891 in St. John’s, Newfoundland to parents James Francis McGrath and Catherine McCarthy. His father was a fisherman as well as a civil servant and political figure in Placentia and St. Mary’s, Newfoundland. James Francis McGrath was a member of the...

In some cases this is easy, but some areas are less clear. I also wonder about places like Wisconsin or Saskatchewan, or some of the northern provinces like the Yukon Territories or Nunavut. I'm sure this'll generate some controversy since there are battleground areas. ANA: Orange County CA...

The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett: Maverick Entrepreneur of North American Sports is the biography of one of the most influential sportsmen of the twentieth century. Dozens of interviews with Bassett’s contemporaries and archival research provide the basis for this work which began as a...

Around the turn of the twentieth century, during the 1900–01 season, 24-year old James Joseph “Jimmy” Enright assembled a group of local teenage Ottawa boys to form a junior hockey team which would initially go under the name “Enright’s Boarders”. The youngsters trained and played at the...

A New Hockey Book on Houghton, Michigan 136 pages, 8” x 10”, softcover, $20 US …a story for all hockeyists, puckeys, rooters, hockey enthusiasts, and historians The story of how a Canadian-born dentist and Houghton entrepreneur changed hockey by openly paying players to come to Michigan’s...

In 1945, Nikolai Romanov became chairman of the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, the governmental body overseeing sports in the Soviet Union. Anatoli Tarasov would later characterize him in the following manner: Granted, he scolded me more often than he praised me, but all...

As crazy as it may sound, we're now a little more than 15 years removed from the lockout season and into to the salary cap. Hence, I think we're more than far enough into this era to evaluate who the best and worst franchises have been during this stretch. In my opinion: 5 Best 1. Pittsburgh...